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Table 2 Confirmatory factor analysis of the SOC-13 scale in mothers and their adolescent children from 36 south Brazilian municipalities

From: Structural validity of the Brazilian version of the Sense of Coherence scale (SOC-13) in oral health research: exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis

Item	Mothers (n = 1718)						Adolescents (n = 1767)
	M1-1 Factor		M2-3 Factors				M1-1 Factor		M2-3 Factors
	Factor1		Factor1	Factor2	Factor3		Factor1		Factor1	Factor2	Factor3
	λ	δ	λ	λ	λ	δ	λ	δ	λ	λ	λ	δ
SOC01	0.26	0.93			0.41	0.84	0.02	1.00			0.30	0.91
SOC02	0.48	0.77	0.49			0.76	0.46	0.79	0.47			0.78
SOC03	0.54	0.71		0.54		0.71	0.51	0.73		0.51		0.74
SOC04	− 0.44	0.80			− 0.65	0.57	− 0.18	0.97			− 0.49	0.76
SOC05	− 0.47	0.78		− 0.46		0.79	− 0.38	0.85		− 0.37		0.87
SOC06	0.67	0.53	0.68			0.54	0.54	0.71	0.53			0.73
SOC07	0.46	0.79			0.63	0.61	0.25	0.94			0.48	0.77
SOC08	0.66	0.57	0.65			0.58	0.58	0.67	0.56			0.68
SOC09	0.60	0.64	0.60			0.64	0.53	0.72	0.53			0.72
SOC10	0.66	0.56		0.64		0.59	0.57	0.68		0.55		0.70
SOC11	− 0.17	0.97	− 0.16			0.98	0.01	1.00	0.01			1.00
SOC12	0.55	0.70			0.69	0.53	0.41	0.83			0.66	0.56
SOC13	0.50	0.75		0.49		0.76	0.47	0.78		0.46		0.79
Correlations F1*				1.14	0.57					1.09	0.38
Correlations F2*					0.55						0.40
RMSEA	0.12			0.10			0.10			0.09
CFI	0.78			0.87			0.70			0.79
TLI	0.73			0.84			0.64			0.74
WRMR	3.28			2.50			2.90			2.85
ΔM1–M2 DIFFTEST	p < 0.01						p < 0.01

Factor 1: Comprehensability, Factor 2: Manageability, Factor 3: Meaningfulness
λ = loadings; δ = uniqueness; *Factor score correlation; RMSEA = Root Mean Square Error Of Approximation; CFI = comparative fit index; TLI = Tucker-Lewis index; WRMR = Weighted Root Mean Square Residual

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